Incidence of Traumatic
Brain Injury in the United States, 2002 and 2003 Updated Data Tables
In 2004, CDC published
Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department
Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths.1 The report
showed the national incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data
are now available for 2002 and 2003. In the tables that follow,
these data are used to update the national incidence of TBI-related
emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and deaths. The
2003 tables presented here serve as a supplement to the data
published in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.2
Methods
The methods were similar to those described in
Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department
Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths.1 The national
incidence numbers, rates, and percentages of TBI visits to EDs,
hospitalizations, and deaths for 2002 and 2003 were calculated by
age, sex, and external cause (e.g., falls). TBI cases were
identified using ICD-9-CM codes3 for ED visits and
hospitalizations and ICD-10 codes4 for deaths, according
to CDC’s electronic case definition.5 ED visits were
identified from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
(NHAMCS),6 hospitalizations from the National Hospital
Discharge Survey (NHDS),7 and deaths from the multiple
cause-of-death data from the National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS).8 Rates were calculated using U.S. Census
bridged-race population estimates from NCHS.9
For details, see the “Methods” section in Traumatic Brain Injury in
the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations,
and Deaths.
Data Tables
2002
2003
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